{"id":8805,"date":"2025-05-04T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/at-least-15000-usda-employees-accept-voluntary-resignation-offer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:20:29","slug":"at-least-15000-usda-employees-accept-voluntary-resignation-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/at-least-15000-usda-employees-accept-voluntary-resignation-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 15,000 USDA employees accept voluntary resignation offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted the Trump administration&rsquo;s voluntary resignation offer, leading to a significant reduction in force. The decrease accounts for about 15 percent of the total workforce at the department which regulates food quality, agriculture development and nationwide nutrition efforts&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5281373-agriculture-department-buyouts-resignations-trump\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted the Trump administration&rsquo;s voluntary resignation offer, leading to a significant reduction in force. The decrease accounts for about 15 percent of the total workforce at the department which regulates food quality, agriculture development and nationwide nutrition efforts&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}